Soulblight - Hamartia

„We have heard enough.

Defendant, in light of the undeniable proof and in accordance with His Majesty's law, this court finds you guilty of all charges, and sentences you to imprisonment upon the island of Hamartis. In exile, shame and hard labour shall you repay the debt you owe for your sins, until your last, mortal breath.

May the Gods have mercy on your soul.“

By the will of His Majesty Velasco III, for the past thirty years a penal colony now occupies the islands, under the governance of viceroy Inigo Salazar, and the constant watch of the royal sorcerer Argos and his silent guards.
Every week, new convicted criminals arrive: murderers and pickpockets, adulterers and dissidents, doomed to live out the rest of their lives either working the islands' mines diving for precious, arcane corals along the shoals and sharp rock reefs.

One day, one such prison shipment contains you. Whether you actually committed the crime you were found guilty of is irrelevant: under the eyes of the Covenant Law and by his Majesty's judgement, you were charged with a lifelong sentence to the penal colony, stripped of all your possessions, cut off from any family and friends you may have had... and escape from the islands but a faint, distant hope.

SOULBLIGHT - HAMARTIA is the third expansion for the Soulblight-Setting, written and designed for Shadowdark RPG. It takes you to the Islands of Hamartis, an archipelago just off the coast of Verocia, a region inspired by the Mediterranean sea and the Reconquista period. Convicted by the paranoid justice of His Majesty King Velasco III, you are delviered unto the penal colony on the central island, where prison gangs fight for every scrape of territory and resources thrown their way by the draconic guards. Can you survive long enough and gain allies for an escape? Do you take the injustice done to you to heart and throw your lot in with the Rebel, taking to Verocia's streets with fire and flame? Do you take to the seas and a life of piracy? Or do you succumb to the call of the coral and its imprisoned god, below Hamartis...

Designed around a hexcrawl map, Soulblight - Hamartia adds the following to your Shadowdark table, spread across 292 pages:

• Black Powder Weaponry. Arquebuses, hand cannons, ship cannons and more! Let your foes taste fire and lead!
• Castillo Pájaro. A 50+ room dungeon, set around infiltrating the guard headquarters of the penal colony, with multiple different scenarios and faction hooks.
• 100+ new monsters! From the convicts of the penal colony, to brutal pirates, ghastly sea monsters and nightmares of the ancient labyrinth!
• Different World States! Two Sovereign candidates, chosen by the Chasm,each changing the whole of Hamartia with their presence!
• A new Soulblight! Liberty itself become a tool of chaos...
• And much, much more!
  
  

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Soulblight – Hamartia copyright 2026 by Laurin-David Weggen. All rights reserved. Permission given to copy for personal use.

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